User Comments - pretzellogic

Posted on: The New News and Features Jingle Contest Winner!

"They Might be Giants". I was actually thinking more "Monty Python", but I understand the reference.

Posted on: Riding the Subway

I think color coding the nouns separate from the verbs was very helpful. I think it also helped that I knew most of the nouns and verbs in the first place.  It would be interesting to hear from someone who didn't know any of the verbs and nouns whether or not they got any of the vocab from the video in a single viewing.

Overall, nice video.

Posted on: F1 in China

tvan, when I was in China, I noticed people didn't even bother with Yuan. Taxi drivers would say si4shi2 kuai, and that would be that.  Or i'd get hit up by a street vendor selling whatever, and i could say wo3 gei2 ni3 yi1 kuai4.

Posted on: Street Food Buffet

speaking of food, will the taikonauts eat freeze dried shaomai and other dianxin in space?

Posted on: Discussing Loan Repayment

this is one of my favorite lessons.  cpod, ask me why.

Posted on: Farm Animals

frances, whoa I never knew that about uncountable english nouns either.  Not that english was my best subject in 12 years of taking it.....

Posted on: Lesson Preview, New Team Member

Hi Jenny, another suggestion on the lesson roadmap is to have a lesson on China's manned space flight program.  cpod should have at least 2, one at ele level, and another at upper-inter or advanced.  For ele, just talk about the launch, the number of days in space, the number of orbits, the guys going.  for advanced, talk about that, plus the science that the taikonauts might be doing in space, the pride of the Chinese people. 

http://english.people.com.cn/90002/95532/index.html

Or tell me that cpod already has a lesson and I didn't see it.

Posted on: F1 in China

tvan, is that ren2min2 shi2? people's cities? I "know" about 10-30 characters, but have learned to recognize characters for most of the large cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an, Lanzhou, etc.)

Posted on: F1 in China

speaking of aerodynamics (and requests for lesson topics), I can't believe there's no lessons on China's space program.  Especially on the eve of another manned mission launch. We can speak topically about something important for China and the Chinese people that only 3 countries can do for themselves.

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE48N03J20080924

Posted on: Farm Animals

I can't believe there's no lessons on China's space program.  Especially on the eve of another manned mission launch.

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE48N03J20080924